The product has always felt obvious to us: teams waste 45+ minutes per incident just context-switching between Grafana, AWS Console, PagerDuty, and Slack before they even start debugging. We collapsed that.

But now Anthropic, AWS, and Google are all shipping their own managed agent orchestration layers. And every week another enterprise tells us their infra team wants to "just build it themselves with Claude."

I keep going back and forth. On one hand, three years of development is genuinely hard to replicate - the domain specificity matters. On the other hand, foundation model providers expanding down the stack has killed entire product categories before.

Has anyone else navigated this? Particularly curious whether other vertical AI founders have found a defensible position or are quietly pivoting.

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My wife is a physiotherapist, and a while back, she decided to start compiling her clinical experience and patient care knowledge into a resource site, Heal And Move. The goal was to share clear, actionable articles on various physical conditions, rehabilitation plans, and specific exercises.

The Bottleneck: The biggest hurdle we immediately ran into was visuals. Explaining a specific stretch or joint movement through text alone is tough. Relying on generic stock photos often doesn't accurately reflect the proper form or the specific muscle groups being targeted, and hiring medical illustrators for every single post just wasn't scalable.

The AI Solution: Recently, we started integrating AI image and video generation into her workflow, and it's been a massive unlock. She can now translate her domain knowledge into precise prompts to generate accurate anatomical illustrations, exercise demonstrations, and step-by-step videos.

As many of you know, getting AI to render anatomically correct limbs and specific physiological poses without looking like body horror takes some trial and error. But by iterating on the prompts, she’s now able to produce high-quality, custom visuals that perfectly match her clinical articles. It has completely removed the visual bottleneck from her content creation.

I'd love for you to take a look. We're open to any feedback on the site, the visual accuracy of the AI-generated assets, or any thoughts from those who have tinkered with fine-tuning models for health/fitness illustrations!

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I was spending over 5 hours manually testing my Agentic AI application before every patch and release. While automating my API and backend tests was straightforward, testing the actual chat UI was a massive bottleneck. I had to sit there, type out prompts, wait for the AI to respond, read the output, and ask follow-up questions. As the app grew, releases started taking longer just because of manual QA.

To solve this, I built Mantis. It’s an automated UI testing tool designed specifically to evaluate LLM and Agentic AI applications right from the browser.

Here is how it works under the hood:

Define Cases: You define the use cases and specific test cases you want to evaluate for your LLM app.

Browser Automation: A Chrome agent takes control of your application's UI in a tab.

Execution: It simulates a real user by typing the test questions into the chat UI and clicking send.

Evaluation: It waits for the response, analyzes the LLM's output, and can even ask context-aware follow-up questions if the test case requires it.

Reporting: Once a sequence is complete, it moves to the next test case. Everything is logged and aggregated into a dashboard report.

The biggest win for me is that I can now just kick off a test run in a background Chrome tab and get back to writing code while Mantis handles the tedious chat testing.

I’d love to hear your thoughts. How are you all handling end-to-end UI testing for your chat apps and AI agents? Any feedback or questions on the approach are welcome!

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What’s worse? Paid upvotes are winning the day. Quality no longer equals visibility.

Real builders pouring months into crafting unique, valuable products are often buried under noise. Meanwhile, “Weekend hacks” with fancy landing pages and fake engagement top the charts.

It used to be a place where innovation got discovered. Now it’s a leaderboard of who has the better hype machine.

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Generate a Blueprint Creates a basic structure and suggests necessary components.

Firebase Integration: Likely designed for seamless integration with Firebase services (though not deeply explored in the review)

Public Link Sharing: Enables sharing a public link to the prototyped application

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So, I built WorkToDoToday.

Imagine typing or saying:

"Remind me tomorrow to send a follow-up email to Customer XYZ regarding our PoC next month."

And instantly, the app:

* Creates a task with a due date of tomorrow * Tags it to Customer XYZ with a clear title and description * Lets me see all related tasks, notes, and past interactions in one place

Why It’s Different:

* No forms or complex workflows—just type naturally, and the app organizes everything * Manage tasks through chat or UI, whichever works best for you * See all interactions tied to a contact for a full view of your relationships

It started as a personal tool, but after sharing it, I realized a lot of founders and busy professionals needed this too. If you struggle with managing follow-ups like I did, check it out: https://www.worktodo.today Would love to hear your thoughts!

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I’ve been discussing with friends recently about the challenges we face when managing notes and tasks, and I got some interesting insights. Surprisingly, most people, regardless of their profession (founders, business development, marketing, engineers), seem dissatisfied with the current apps for note-taking and reminders. Despite having different needs, they all agree that they want something better.

Here are two examples:

One of my friends needs notes and reminders tied to his contacts. Right now, he’s manually jotting down important things about his contacts across different apps. For instance, small notes go into the Apple Contacts app, while larger notes and reminders are scattered between the Apple Notes and Reminders apps. It’s disorganized, and these apps don’t work well together.

Another friend explained how he’s been juggling between tools for years. During meetings or while talking to customers, quick thoughts come to his mind, and he wants to note them down fast. But, when you’re occupied, pulling up a dedicated app, filling out forms, or setting a time-based reminder is too slow. His go-to is still a plain notepad because there’s no time to mess around with structured tools. Plus, he doesn’t always need time-based reminders—he just needs to link notes and tasks to the relevant contacts for future follow-ups.

What I realized is that both of them, and likely many others, share a common need: notes and tasks need to be connected to people—whether colleagues, customers, or professional contacts. This happens when you’re making multiple decisions and handling various follow-ups daily.

So, does anyone else face similar frustrations? What are your thoughts?

I’m considering building a simple note-taking and reminder app that ties everything to your contacts—kind of like a personal CRM (though I hesitate to use that term).

Would love to hear your thoughts!

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